Monthly Archives: August 2013

A Storey County jury awarded a $1.3 million claim against a business of Mustang Ranch brothel owner and Storey Commissioner Lance Gilman on Friday in a contract dispute with a man who once loaned Gilman $2.25 million for his previous Continue reading →

It smelled like victory Thursday in Virginia City for embattled brothel owner and Storey County Commissioner Lance Gilman, as five of seven claims against him in a $1.5 million lawsuit were thrown out by District Court Judge James Wilson.

Mustang Ranch brothel owner Lance Gilman, elected as Storey County commissioner last year, is embroiled in a jury civil suit in Virginia City – where the 1877 statue of “Lady Justice” in front of the court house is uniquely not Continue reading →

The Storey County manager testified in Virginia City Thursday that the reason the county changed its brothel ordinances in 2009 was to keep an “outlaw motorcycle gang” from ever gaining control of a legal brothel in that county.

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Ray Hagar is the political reporter for the Reno Gazette-Journal and a fifth-generation Nevadan. Hagar is also a co-host for the Nevada Newsmakers statewide television program. He is the co-author of "Johnson-Jeffries: Dateline Reno," a book about the 1910 "Fight of the Century" in Reno that pitted black world champion Jack Johnson against the "Great White Hope," Jim Jeffries